GDPR indications in commits messages in GitHub repositories

A vast amount of software data are available on GitHub repositories and they are being reused by practitioners worldwide. The latest advances in privacy legislation, such as the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), have forced the software community to pay special attention to users' data privacy. In this work, we are examining the commits of Open Source Software repositories with a reference to GDPR in their message. We have collected commits from GitHub repositories for this purpose. We are examining how many such commits appear over the years and we are showing the main terms appearing in the commit messages. This study can serve as a first step towards understanding how privacy legislation is present in the Open Source Software community.